Joe Louis Greenway Ride on Sunday, June 23rd
Registration is still open for our 24-mile Joe Louis Greenway bike ride on Sunday, June 23rd. The ride is being sponsored by the SmithGroup and will start near the Clark Park ice rink (1251 Scotten St.) at 8:30am.
This second annual Joe Louis Greenway bike ride will be limited to 100 donating participants. The objective of the ride is to create more awareness of the Joe Louis Greenway and raise money for the Detroit Greenways Coalition.
This year, participants will receive a commemorative pint glass. They just arrived and look great!
City of Detroit Community Visioning Sessions
The Joe Louis Greenway Visioning meetings are underway! All four meetings have the same content and activities so no need to attend them all.
Translation services will be available at Lasky Recreation Center and Patton Creek Community Center. Refreshments will be provided.
- Thursday, June 20th, 6-8pm, Patton Community Center
- Saturday, June 22nd, 11am-1pm, Lasky Recreation Center
- Monday, June 24th, 2-4pm, Tindal Recreation Center
More information can be found on the city’s website: www.joelouisgreenway.com
Email Christina Peltier if you have any questions or would like her to present to your neighborhood organization.
Gordie Howe International Bridge Community Benefits
With the development of the new bridge comes a $10 million community benefit package to both Detroit and Windsor. Last week the Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority announced how they plan on making those investments.
To quote a Detroit Free Press reporter we spoke with at the announcement, “Lot’s of bike stuff in there.” Included in the package is funding for parks (including the Fort-Rouge Gateway park we’ve been involved with), trails, trail heads, wayfinding, bike racks, a cross-river bike/walk tour, and much more. We’re were fortunate to have been consulted on these ideas and look forward to them being implemented.
Of course there are also many streetscape improvements to make it easier to walk and bike to the bridge. The bridge does have a non-motorized pathway, too. The city’s latest proposal for the Joe Louis Greenway has it running between Fort Wayne and the US bridge plaza, which we think it really smart.
More information on the community benefits
Recent Events
We recently attended an “Honor Roll” for Ms. Sheila Jett, a 61-year old Detroit grandmother killed while biking in a hit-and-run on Detroit’s westside. Hundreds of bicyclists showed up, many arriving on the same route Ms. Jett had taken that evening. Special thanks to LDR, the Hub ride, and Westside Wednesday for helping make this happen.
Her daughter rode with us and Jett’s sister was simply overwhelmed by the crowd’s show of support. They were so thankful.
We mentioned to Ms. Jett’s daughter that Detroit’s bike community is family. We lost one of our own and it’s the Detroit Greenways Coalition mission to make a safer bicycling city so that other families don’t have to experience what hers did.
If you have any information on the hit-and-run, please contact the Detroit Police Department.
